Horseshoe.



W. B. GREGG.

HORSESHOB.

APPLICATION FILED rmm, 1914.

1,1 19,424. Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

YHE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHDTUYLITHQ, WASHINGTON, D. C

WILKS B. GREGG, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 SAMUEL M. VAN

LIEU, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Application filed February 2, 1914. Serial No. 815,878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILKS B. GREGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomeryand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in means for preventing slipping of a body or object when moving over a surface such as a street or roadway.

The invention is especially adapted to pre vent slipping of horses on icy streets or roads, but may be with equal facility applied to the wheels of automobiles.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for preventing slipping which may be applied to the common form of horseshoe already in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a bottom plan view of a horseshoe made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a lower plan view of the upper member of the shoe.

In the drawings and description to follow, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

While in the drawings I have shown the means applied to a horseshoe, it is to be understood that said means may be applied to other devices as well.

The shoe consists of upper and lower members 1 and 2 the former of which is a common form of horseshoe provided with the usual recess 3 and nail openings 4 and the ends of which are turned down as at 5 to form abutting shoulders for similar ends 6 of the member 2. Between the forward ends of the two members 1 and 2, there is located a distance piece 7 with a screw threaded opening therein through which a screw 8 passes after penetrating the lower member 2 and by this means the front ends of the two members are rigidly united. The rear ends of said members are united by dowel pins 9 which extend from the portions 5 and which penetrate openings in the abutting shoulders 6, before referred to. The lower member of the shoe is provided with openings 10 through which project metallic calks 11 which are preferably of round shape with semi-spherical heads 12 which lie within the space between the two members 1 and 2. The calks 11 are smaller in diameter than are the openings 10 in order that they mav be freely movable sidewise in all directions and assume slanting positions, as shown in Fig. 2, when the ends of said calks are brought in contact with the pavement. The semi-spherical heads of the calks engage the lower side of the upper member of the shoe and, being rounded, they readily assume any slanting position within the limits of the openings 10 through which said calks project.

Having described my invention, I claim.

1. The herein described non-slipping device, consisting of two parallel members united and held apart with a space between them, and a series of headed calks extending through openings in one of said members said openings being of larger diameter than the bodies of said calks whereby said calks are freely movable in all directions, and the heads of said calks lying between the two giembers and held in position by both memers.

2. The herein described. horseshoe, comprising two members the ends of which terminate in abutting shoulders which are united and the front portions of which are secured by a distance piece so that space is provided between the said members, a series of round elongated calks having semispherical heads, said calks being projected through openings in the lower member which are of greater diameters than the bodies of said calks whereoy said calks are freely movable in all directions, and the heads of said calks adapted to engage the upper member within the space between said upper and lower members.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

WILKS B. GREGG.

Witnesses:

Mnnmn GALLowAr, MAT'I'HEW SLEBLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

